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ISBN: 0-12-809282-3

Inhalt: Focuses "on the airless, rocky bodies in the inner solar system as a host unto themselves, with a unique set of processes that require a specific set of investigative techniques. The book allows readers to understand both the basic and advanced concepts necessary to understand and employ that information. Topics covered past exploration of these surfaces, changes with time, space weathering, impact cratering, creation and evolution of regolith and soils, comparison of sample and remote sensing data, dust characterization, surface composition and thoughts for future exploration."--

Anmerkung: Front Cover -- Airless Bodies of the Inner Solar System: Understanding the Process Affecting Rocky, Airless Surfaces -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Motivation -- Scope of Textbook -- The Chapters of This Book -- Basic Concepts -- A Word About Asteroid Names -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 2: Common Characteristics of Airless Bodies -- Major Features and Phenomena Found on Airless Bodies -- Retention of More Complete Impact Cratering Records at Small Sizes -- Temperature Extremes -- Space Weathering -- Movement of the Regolith -- Importance of Electromagnetic Processes -- What's Lacking on Airless Bodies -- Weather, Aeolian, and Fluvial Processes -- Present-Day Volcanism -- Features and Phenomena That Pose a More Complex Picture -- Resurfacing -- Ice and Volatiles -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 3: Rethinking the Airless Bodies -- Early History of the Exploration of Rocky Airless Bodies -- Exploration of the Moon Prior to the 1990s -- Early Exploration of Phobos and Deimos -- Early Exploration of Mercury -- Early Exploration of Asteroids -- Our Changing Paradigms -- Formation of the Solar System -- The Moon -- Water on the Moon -- Lunar Impact History -- Mercury -- Volatiles on Mercury -- Surface Composition -- Phobos and Deimos -- The Asteroids -- Summary -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 4: Data and Techniques -- The Age of Rock Samples -- Radiometric Dating: Derivation -- Radiometric Dating: Practicalities -- Closure Temperature-Diffusion: How the Clock is Reset -- Isochrons -- Rubidium-87/Strontium-87 (Rb-Sr) Dating -- Argon-Argon (40Ar/39Ar) Dating (and K-Ar Dating) -- Samarium-147/Neodymium-143 system (Sm-Nd) -- U, Th-Pb (Uranium, Thorium-Lead) -- Fission Track Dating -- Cosmic Ray Exposure (CRE) Age -- Typical Soils From Moon With Maturity Indices. , The Age of Rocky Surfaces -- Impact Crater Statistics -- Production Function -- Crater Counting (Size-Frequency Distributions) -- Secondary Craters: Counting Issues -- Crater Statistics Programs -- Boulders -- Boulders, Measurements and Techniques -- Optical Maturity -- Determining the Composition of Rocky Surfaces -- Albedo -- Emitted Light -- Kirchhoff's Law -- Reflectance Spectroscopy -- Transmission Spectra -- Emission Spectra -- The ``Crossover Region´´ -- Interpreting Spectral Measurements -- Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy -- Raman Spectroscopy -- Remote Elemental Composition Techniques -- Photometry -- Spectrophotometry -- Brightness in Magnitudes -- Lightcurves -- Radar -- Laser Altimetry -- Summary -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 5: Comparing Sample and Remote-Sensing Data-Understanding Surface Composition -- The Importance of Comparing Data Sets -- Terrestrial Analogs -- Interpreting Craters -- Bulk Density: Implications for Surface Composition, Interior Structure, and Volatile Content -- Meteorites -- Meteorite Types-Compositional Classification -- Lunar Meteorites -- Telling the Story of a Meteorite -- Interplanetary Dust Particles -- Sample Collection Missions -- Stardust -- Hayabusa -- Genesis -- Morphological Imaging -- Asteroid Spectral Classes -- ``Chips off of Vesta´´ -- Optical Maturity -- Summary -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 6: Space Weathering -- What is Space Weathering? -- The Problem of Space Weathering -- The Processes of Space Weathering -- Inclusions in Grains and Space Weathering -- Space Weathering on Low-Albedo Surfaces -- Space Weathering at Other Wavelengths -- Sulfur and Space Weathering -- Shock Darkening -- Solar Wind Implantation and Plasma Interactions -- Dating Surfaces With Space Weathering -- ``Resetting´´ Space Weathering Effects -- Summary -- References. , Additional Reading -- Chapter 7: The Creation of Regolith and Soils-Impact Cratering and Other Processes -- Definitions -- Importance of Regolith -- Impact Events and Crater Formation -- Large-Scale Impacts -- Small-Scale Impact Events -- Boulders -- Gardening -- The Megaregolith -- Thermal Fracturing -- Lag Deposits -- Depth and Retention of Regolith -- Summary -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 8: Regolith and Dust: Movement and Transport -- Introduction -- Cohesion -- Cohesion in Microgravity -- Emplacement and Mixing of Impact Ejecta -- Downslope Movement of Regolith -- Regolith Creep -- Angle of Repose -- Slumping and Landslides -- Seismic Shaking and Regolith Convection -- Asteroid Regolith ``Ponds´´ -- Electrostatic Effects and Levitation -- The Physics of Dust Levitation -- Lunar Observations -- Levitation on Asteroids -- Summary -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 9: Orbital Considerations -- Basics of Celestial Mechanics -- Orbital Elements -- Vis-Viva Equation -- Delta-v -- Orbit Changes From ``Surface Processes´´ -- The Yarkovsky Effect -- YORP Torques -- Roche Limit -- Poynting-Robertson Drag and Solar Radiation Pressure -- Summary -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 10: Volatiles: Origin and Transport -- Definitions -- Origin of Volatiles: Where Does an Airless Body Get Volatiles? -- The Accretion and Evolution of Endogenic Volatiles -- Added Volatiles, Exogenic -- Detecting Volatiles on Airless, Rocky Bodies -- Volatile Transport -- Retention of Volatiles: How Do Airless Bodies Keep Volatiles? -- Volatile Losses: How Do Airless Bodies Lose Volatiles? -- Volatiles on Specific Airless Worlds -- Volatiles on Larger Worlds-Mercury and the Moon -- Volatiles: Mercury -- Volatiles: Moon -- Volatiles on Smaller Worlds-Dwarf Planets, Asteroids, and Small Satellites -- Volatiles: Vesta -- Volatiles: Ceres. , Volatiles: Other Asteroids -- Volatiles: Phobos and Deimos -- Summary -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 11: Unusual Processes and Features -- Introduction -- More About Asteroid Families -- The Phobos and Deimos Dust Tori -- Transient Lunar Phenomena -- Resurfacing by Tides and Temperatures -- Infall at Vesta -- Irregular Mare Patches, Ahuna Mons, and Ceres Faculae -- Lunar Swirls -- Pits and Pit Craters -- Pits -- Pit Craters -- Pit Chains -- Grooves -- Summary -- References -- Additional Reading -- Chapter 12: Future Exploration -- Community-Defined Science Goals -- Future Robotic Missions-Moon -- Future Robotic Missions-Mercury -- Future Robotic Missions-Phobos and Deimos -- Future Robotic Missions-Asteroids -- Missions in Operation -- Missions Selected for Funding -- Additional Mission Concepts -- Human Exploration -- In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Concepts -- Human Exploration and Regolith -- Data Storage and Processing -- Data Storage and Data Mining -- Processing: Citizen Science -- Summary -- Additional Reading -- Index -- Back Cover.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-12-809279-3

Sprache: Englisch